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Aysel vs Ayslinn

American parents have registered 705 Aysels since 1880, against 63 Ayslinns. Aysel is still ahead, with 93 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Aysel against Ayslinn, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Aysel Ayslinn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Aysel has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2003 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2016, when Aysel had 16 and Ayslinn had 12.

Side by side

  Aysel Ayslinn
Total US births 70563
Most in one year 12712
Babies in 2025 93under 5
Estimated living today 70060
Median age today 36
Peak year 20232016
Best rank 1,636th girls8,875th girls
Rank in 2025 2,036thunranked
First recorded 20032016
Girls / boys 705 / 063 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Ayslinns alive today are over 6; half the Aysels are over 3. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Aysel and Ayslinn.